4 Typhoid Cases Tied To McDonald's Salad

AP

Published: September 17, 1986

BALTIMORE, Sept. 16—
Four women who ate at the same McDonald's restaurant in the Washington suburbs have been diagnosed as having typhoid fever, health officials announced today.

Carmela Groves, acting chief of the outbreak division of the State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, said typhoid fever had been confirmed after bacterial tests.

Two of the patients are hospitalized in stable condition, and two were treated and released, officials said.

The only factor linking the women, who were not identified, was that they ate shrimp salad at a McDonald's restaurant in Silver Spring, Md., the officials said. ''We feel pretty confident that this was just one McDonald's and not all of them,'' said a department spokesman, Ray Feldman.

Ms. Groves said the McDonald's restaurant voluntarily closed this morning and began testing employees.